Default applications

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Tue Feb 27 21:05:51 CET 2007


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Hari Sundar wrote:
> How do I set default applications, (i.e., beyond browser, mail agent and
> terminal). Specifically I want to modify the default text editor that is
> used, which for some reason happens to be XEmacs. I would prefer a
> simpler default text editor.

This is not managed by xfce, but depends on your distribution.

Usually, setting the environment variable EDITOR to whatever editor fits
your need (vi?) does the job.

If you are usign a Debian based system, you may have to adjust
atlernatives. "galternatives" provides a gtk GUI to the Debian
alternative system (sudo apt-get install galternatives)

HTH
Olivier.
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